Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-03-13 | Page 20 | Vast Hatchery is Started Electric Incubators Used

Vast Hatchery Is Started re Electric Incubators Incubators Used y w I ir 1 fc f L S r I r Lop Leo A Inset Is tin th founder of what ts is believed to be bone one of the th worlds world's largest chick hatcheries A view of the Interior of one of the plants shows an aisle aisi of 1 es eggs DY BY WM Wf VM C O NE Service Wlter Vi Calif March 12 Seventy-five Seventy thousand new orphans every nery 2 24 hours hot That rea reads s like the start of ot some gigantic antic catastrophe but In real real- reality reality It ity It I Is La quite Juito con constructive tl The Th Is tile the total of o baby chicks hatched batched each ach day In the peak run of an Incubator plant which has a halt half million dollars just opened here The plant has hasa hasa Iasa a batching capacity of chickens every three weeks Man ha- ha harnessed electricity to todo todo todo do the work it may well be said sallI that electricity has become the greatest mother of them nil PliANT I 1 IS ENORMOUS The capacity of ot this plant Is La said to be nearly double that of any oth- oth othor oth other er or hatchery In the thc world orld It rep rep- represents rep represents resents the rapid progress made mado by Petaluma already famous as ns the worlds world's egg gg basket since 1925 when Leo A A Bourke head of the thc hatchery hatcher erected d a a plant of ot SOO chick capacity Bourke c is ono one of ot these track single track men you often orten hear bear about Ten years ago aco lie started with the Idea that electricity would be a 0 better and more faithful mother to chicks than would tho the brood hen ben benor or any other beating agency previously previously previously used for lor artificial Incubation o of eggs elYS His first hatchery handled chicks chicles When Ien fire Ire destroyed the plant its capacity had gone cone to Douche Bourke rebuilt on a II scale of capacity but hut In less leas than four years has grown crown to three times that size VOI TAGI DOWN DO Electricity Is brought Into to the plant over volt wires and stepped down dowil In voltage and am- am am to meet hatching needs need None of ot the great creat manufacturing plants of oC the San Francisco bay re region rc- rc gion glon use as much as M this egg hatcher hatchery Here Hero are aro ar the tir statistics revealing the extent of ot the enterprise hens laying eggs cees for the tho hatchery eggs set each da day chicks hatched each day eggs cees total capacity ell eggs to lo each ot or 10 aIsles or of Incubators Nothing Is left to chance The eggs are ro turned each 20 0 minutes by helpers who work all around the 2 24 hours of tho clock Not on only is his the largest hatch hatch- hatcher hatch cry er cry In the world but similar plants also located here turn out an equal of ot newly hatched chicks All AlI but 1 per cent is of ot the White o Leghorn varlet variety to be bo raised both food and laying purposes